Thursday, November 14, 2013

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This week is the Preschoolers turn to share her crafty fall Creations.
For this one I took a pink piece of paper, her favorite color, and cut
a maple leaf right in the middle. Then she used the paint daubers and
painted her paper. Once the paper dried we added some tissue paper to
the middle. She doesn't quite get fall colors form others so hers is a mix
of beauty for fall.

By Sweet Pea Age 4

We also did a squirrel craft this week. I cut a squirrel shape out of a
brown paper bag. We were out of brown construction paper. Sweet Pea
cut little snips for his tail. Then we glued him down. I drew an oval in
the middle of the tail so that she knew where to cut to. Then she added
a wiggle eye, leaves and butterflies. I thought she'd add piles of leaves
but this is what she choose. Simple and sweet.

By Sweet Pea Age 4

Our last Craft today is foam shaped leaves. I want to get some magnet
tape to put on the backs so we can literally put them on our refrigerator.
I gave her a variety of things to use. She stuck mostly to the plastic shapes
but did do one there with beans.

Creation, Compound Chemistry, Mixtures, Mechanics, Motion,Work in the world, Sound and Energy, Light of the World, Thermal Energy, Electrifying the World, Magnetism and SimpleMachines. This book explores the world through God's creationsound and biblically correct information. The text includes 14 lessons. The notebooking journal spreads the lessons over a spanof two weeks. Each reading section has information about the topic. They are then related to biblical facts and to the bible. There are bluesections with Try this activities giving it that hands on prospective. There are typically several try this sections within each chapter. You can pick and choose the ones you would like to try with your student. You are also offered some online resources with the use of a password. Also listed along with the chapter is suggested notebooking pages that your child can complete. At the end of each section you will find a Project, Experiment or other larger scale activity.

In the back of the book you will find a supply list so that you canbe prepared to work through each section.

The activities inside the Notebooking Journal has everything your child needs to complete the written parts of the assignments. The notebooking Journal provides a place for your child to record experiments,display their work, crossword puzzles, coloring pages and handwriting.

This book is recommended for students who have mastered handwriting andnote taking, upper elementary level. I used this one with my 7th grader . He is a bit older but has dysgraphia so this worked best for him.

There are age appropriate activities for children in early elementary levelsuch as coloring pages and activities with beginner writing skills. There are exercises to strengthen vocabulary and limited writing forthose just beginning. I used this notebook with my 2nd grade son who is just really beginning to write well. ﻿

How we used Apologia Exploring Creation and ChemistryAs stated above I used it with my two boys one in 7th with dysgraphiaand one in 2nd with beginning writing skills. My preschool child alsojumped in and enjoyed many of the try it's and activities alongside her brothers. I love Apologia Science. It is my absolute favorite Sciencecurriculum. After trying it through the Crew I am sold on it. We skipped to Chapter 7 so that you the readers could get a broaderview of the curriculum. I wouldn't suggest starting in the middle. The curriculum builds upon itself. However my boys have had someexperience with Chemistry and Physics so I thought we would be ableto do so . We also began working on Chapter 14. Simple Machines.

The boys responded will to the reading. I read it aloud since I have varying reading abilities. What we liked most is that the lesson wasrelated to their lives and things that the children know already. This really helps with their learning journey. We explored many of the try it activities . Their favorite Activity was one on Friction. ﻿

My preschool enjoyed it for hours after. We took an old cookies sheet totry our experiment on. We took a matchbox and gave it a push to feeland see how far it would go just on the tile floor. Then we added a littlewater to the pan and pushed the car across it. We added water and oil. Oil being the slickest. My youngest son decided that the oil made his car go a lot faster and we talked about the dangers of that on the road. He decided that in the winter we put down salt to help melt the road andhe wondered if it had traction if it would move slower so we went beyond the experiment and tried salt over the oil. This slowed down our drivers making it safe for them to travel. The kids then proceededto try various other things around the house, sand, soapy water , andflour. My preschooler played the longest with the activity and I wasso please. My motto Learning is play sure fits this curriculum.

Saturday, November 9, 2013

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This week I want to share with you our castle projects. I posted
Spirits back a week or so ago on a review Bridgway Academy but
wanted to share in detail more what we did. I had to help quite a bit
with these but the kids had their hands in them too.
We used foam board and poster board. I cut large rectangles
for the towers and drew the tops. Spirit cut it out then to give it that
castle look. He then drew or colored his castle towers. We stapled
them into a cylinder. I cut the bottom about an inch up and folded
them inside so that we could hot glue it easy to our foam board.
You can see he drew doors and windows. I bought the foam board
in color. I actually found the cheaper foam board easier to cut. I
used an exacto knife and then hot glued the sides for the kids.

Spirit has some medieval figures so he put those inside to play.

Of course Sweet Pea wanted one too. I made hers a bit smaller and
we miss judged and didn't have enough poster board but we did use
some toilet tubes. It has the same effect but the towers weren't as high.
It's hard to see but she glued some pink pom poms and a little glitter.

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Welcome. When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren, I am a stay at home mom/work part-time mom and Have 5 children, 2 step children and 3 Grandchildren. I have worked in the childcare field for years and currently work for my church as a nursery supervisor. I post all things here that I enjoy God, Home education, being a mom, book reviews and about our home. My goal is to create a resource for other homeschool moms who are going through the same Joys,fun, challenges, and struggles. I hope you Enjoy your visit.

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From everlasting to everlasting ,The Lords love is with those who fear him and his righteousness with their children's children....Then our sons in their youth will be like well - nurtured plants and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace....All the sons will be taught by the Lord and Great will be our childrens peace.....Psalms 103:17, 144:12 Isaiah 54:13